To think that really pyjamas should be washed after every wear?

[scaryclown]

Not that I do it!
But they are worn next to the skin for 8 hours and I'd wash anything else worn like that..

What do you think?

I have about 10-12 pairs of pyjamas and loads of lounge pants.

Because I tend to wear knickers under all my clothes!!

And I have a separate washing machine for clothes that have touched me naked.

So, what you are all saying is I need to buy lots more new pyjamas and bedsheets, yes?

I take my pyjamas off before bed and just sleep in pants. Probably wear them for 2-3 evenings.

In teens / twenties - they lasted a week, no undies needed

thirties - two pairs a week, undies required

forties, breastfeeding, and even with undies yep, had them late - 2-4 pairs a week

Heading for 50s- Fresh every day DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen You are feeling my pain!!!!!!!!

Argiemargie - ever consider menopause?

This morning I wiped a blob of yoghurt off my hand onto pjs as I thought "they need washing anyway" tonight I find myself wearing the same pjs

I sleep naked and don't wash my sheets weekly

I'm a single parent and work 45 hours + a week. It just isn't a priority. I'm sure it would be if I had more time on my hands.

It's funny how everyone has different hygiene expectations.

I don't see it as ott, but I shower in the morning and in the evening before bed. I change my bed linen every week and my pj's 2-3 times. I also wear undies under my pj's too. It's just weird not too. I also wash my towels twice a week. Don't see the point in showering then wiping yourself with a manky towel.

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Logically speaking though - the towel is clean because you only use it after you have washed yourself?

I wash towels after every use though, despite the reasoning above 😳

When I was a student, one of my best friends had a flatmate that never washed his towel. Not once in the 3 years they lived together. I don't think he let it dry properly between showers either (think crumpled towel on floor he's never hoovered). He showered every day but still smelt terrible because he was drying himself on an utterly filthy towel. I would put money in him never changing his bedsheets either, but obviously I never went anywhere near his bedroom.

DH had a friend who also didn't wash his towel very often too. He never washed his jeans either. They we're so crusty that they cracked one day and he was left with a huge hole in them. He still wore them for weeks after that.

With that in mind, I cannot get worked up about whether someone washes their PJs daily or once a week.

The logic behind regularly washing towels is that they remain warm and damp for a lot of time and therefore are breeding grounds for bacteria.

I wash mine after every wear too

I am more puzzled by women who wash their tops after one wear, but keep the same bras for several days. Each to their own, it just sounds odd. If your tshirt needs to be washed (which it does!) then surely so does your bra

My armpit sweats more than my boob

Sleeping naked is not unusual but you only have to read the responses to this thread to see that MOST people do wear something to bed.
Thats a very simplistic view. What the thread tells you, is that people cruising mumsnet, who see a thread about washing PJs, and are interested enough to read it and respond, are slightly more likely to say they wear nightwear in bed, than to say they don't.
Thats not the absolute truth about a representative sample of all human kind by a long way

I'm Team Minger!

I wear mine twice in a row. Then wash. I don't wear underwear with them unless it's that time.

I agree too but I don't do it either haha.

I shower in the evening, put pyjamas on for a couple of hours, then take them off for bed, sleep in just underwear. PJs washed after about a week. Unless I spill food down them.

washing after every use will increase your exposure to residual cleaning products - never seen studies on this but it might be interesting to map allergenic sensitivity against washing frequency

This obsession with "clean" is a bit bonkers, you know. For every cell in your body you have 1.3 bacteria. You are outnumbered, by roughly nine trillion. You ARE germs.

I am more puzzled by women who wash their tops after one wear, but keep the same bras for several days.

sniff test says t-shirt needs a wash after one wear. bra doesn't as often.

Frankiestein I do my laundry every day using bio powder and Lenor. I'm 42, no allergies or intolerances.

Reputedly Queen Victoria had a bath twice a year, whether she needed it or not. This may well be inaccurate on many counts.
Our bodies are designed to cope with the many bacteria thrown at it, and to co exist with many that are within us. Excessive use of 'cleaners' and especially bleaching, it seems a MN favorite, destroys the planet and our bodies capability to work with bacteria.
Just a quick squirt of bleach down the loo each day is just as surely destroying the planet as some vociferous country leaders.